Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

Each week I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication.

And this week I examine the adaptation to the second novella included in the 1990 collection of four past midnight,

the tale of identity, writers, writing, and insanity, the

Johnny Depp and John Totoro starring Secret Window.

So in my review of the novella, I talked about how I wasn't looking forward to re-watching

because I remembered it being pretty boring.

I was pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed re-reading the novella,

which I had only read once and had done so before I had seen the movie,

so much of my remembrance of the story was shaped by the movie that I had watched after it first come out in 2004.

It was a movie that I wasn't overly excited for,

because I just didn't have strong feelings

towards the novella one way or another.

But I was very interested because it was starring Johnny Depp, and 2004 was Prime Johnny Depp.

Remember that he had just had his resurgence the summer before with the first Pirates of the Caribbean,

his small but buzzed-about role in once upon

a time in Mexico, and was currently reinventing himself as a tour de force of a leading man

with the strength of a character actor, infusing his roles with memorable tics and idiosyncrasies.

So even though I wasn't overly excited, it was still enough to hold my interest.

And just over a decade later, I don't have much memory of the movie, other than the

sensation of finding it boring.

So it was with this thought that I headed into my current day rewatch.

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